Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-06-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
special Correspondence of the Alexa. GAzErrE]
WASHINGTON, D. c., June IA, 1887.


Gently in Richmond, and Mr.. Cooper, one
of those holders, were among the passengers
who sailed from New York for London to-
day.
i, is stated here that Gen. Malone has
nerfected his plan for the settlement of the
VIRGINIA debt. but that he will not make it
public until after the proposed democratic
convention of his State shall have been held.
The North Carolinians who called upon
the President Yesterday, and urged him 10
reeppoint Mr.. Dowd, VINO lost the position
of internal revenue collector by the consol-
idatiop of his and another district, say that
though they received little encouragement,
il NAV not be impossible that another, in
stead of Mr.. Dowd's district, may be consol-
idated. At the Internal Revenue Bureau it
is said that no matter what districts may
be consolidated, Mr.. Dowd will never be re-
inslated.
1t is now said that Mr.. Jay Goud's recent
visit to Virginia waters in his yacht Atalan-
tn was not simply for pleasure. but like all
that gentleman's other actions, had busl'
ness outlook, and that the result OF 1t will he
q connection OF Mr. Gould's western lines
with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad,
the making of Newport News the eastern
terminus OF those lines, and the establish
ment Of o hi weekly line of European
steamers from that port.
The Adjulant. General to day received
the following telegram from General o. y.
Howard, dated San francisco, June Is,
General Miles telegraphs that Capt. Pierce
reports only 1G men absent from San
Carlos, and that all Indians on the rcser.
walton understand that the action Of few
reflects upon the whole tribe and are anx
ious that the offenders shall be captured.
He leaves Los Angeles to-day for Fort
Grant"
The famous pond at the base of the west
front of the Capitol, the sight OF the sun fish
in which has delighted so many children of
the country, now, alas, grown 10 be old peo-
pie, has been destroyed, never 10 be restored.
The fish in It were taken out this morning
and transferred to the pond at the insane
asylum, and the stones that formed II re.
moved.
Ex.Coneressman Barbour. chairman of
the executive committee Of the democratic
party of Virginia, left here this afternoon
for Richmond, where that committee will
meet to morrow 10 fix the time and place
for the meeting of the State convention of
his party, ordered at the recent meeting OF
the State central committee. lie would
prefer smaller convention. but there must
be large one, as the central committee, In
the resolution ordering the convention, pro-
vided that the apportlonment OF delegates
to voters should be the same as at the last
convention.
1t is understood here that as the United
States Senate is now republican only by the
vote of MI Riddleberger, who has not been
treated very well either by his republican
colleagues or by the republican officers of the
Senate, and the certainty of whose vote
hereafter they consequently doubt the re.
publican Senators are considering the advis.
ability OF opposing the admission of the
new Democratic Senators from California,
Indiana and West Virginia, and that as
they vii! have precedent in the latter case
if Mcssrs. Lucas aid Faulkner contest, the
democratic Senator's are urging Gov. Will
son, of West Virginia, TO give the certificate
of election to Mr.. Faulkner, so as to prevent
that contest.
10 the Circuit Court at Fairfax yesterday
Judge Keith entered decree in the Otter
back estate case confirming the report of
Commissioner j. K M. Norton, who settled
the accounts of the administrators of the es
tate in Virginia, and directed that the funds
in their possession, amounting 10 several
thousand dollars, should be paid to the gen.
eral receiver of the court and subject to its
order The real estate in Virginia consists
OF several large and valuable tracts Of land,
which will be sold as soon as the rights of
the devisees and legatees in the estate shall
be decided by the Supreme Court of the Dis
trct of Columbia, where suits are pending.
The editor of weekly democratic news-
paper published here is authority for the
statement that of all the many foremen in
the government printing Office there is not
one who can be called or who even pretends
to call himself a real simon pure. old time,
true and consistent democrat. He also says
that in the recent removals there most of
the sufferers have been Southern democrats.
The President to-day appointed Clarance
III. Pitkin, of Vermont, to be U. 5. Attorney
for the district of Vermont.
A new postoflice has been established at
Watkins, Orange county, Va, with James
A. Watkins as postmaster.
1t is said at the government departments
here that the Sth, the Alexandra Virginia
congressional district, has more than its
quota of employees ii those departments
and that some of the congressman from that
State, other than the one from that district,
are trying to have the number reduced so as
to make places for some of their friends.
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, is still here.
To show what an administration democratic
Senator from State that has only ole
democrat in tho Senate has to do may be
judged by the fact that the Senator's mail
this morning contained seventy odd letters.
Senator John Sherman has just bought
from DR.. Hill $4,000 feet of ground at the
corner of H and Sd streets, n. E., for SOL
500. This is farther out, but in the same
section of the city in which ex Senator Ma
hone, of Virginia, and ex.Postmaster Wind
sor, of Alexandria, made their purchase last
year.
While one of the brick arches in the ter.
race on the west front of the Capitol was
being pulled down this morning, it fell and
badly hurt three workmen, John Decker
and James Grace, white, and Thomas Wood,
colored. Decker is we'll known as Jack,
the rigger," and is the man who recently
inspected the Goddess of Liberty on top
of the Capitol, and who does all the danger
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